Arden Grange Adult Dog Neutered Fresh Chicken Potato

Neutering changes what a dog needs from their food, and most owners find out the slow way — the same bowl, the same walks, and a dog gradually getting heavier over a year. A food formulated for it is not a gimmick: it pulls the calories down while keeping the protein up, which is the only way to take weight off a dog without taking muscle with it.

Chicken is 40% of this — fresh chicken at 26% and dried at 14% — with sweet potato at 13%, peas at 8% and no grain. Crude protein is 25.5% against crude fat of just 12%, and the energy is declared at 348kcal per 100g, which is the number to use if you are actually counting. Arden Grange add L-carnitine at 2,500mg/kg to help metabolise fat, plus turmeric at 800mg/kg, glucosamine and MSM at 370mg/kg each, chondroitin sulphate at 260mg/kg and prebiotic FOS and MOS.

• Complete grain-free food for neutered and spayed adult dogs, 12KG
• Chicken 40% — fresh 26%, dried 14%
• Crude protein 25.5%, crude fat 12%
• 348kcal per 100g, declared
• L-carnitine 2,500mg/kg, turmeric 800mg/kg
• Glucosamine and MSM 370mg/kg, chondroitin sulphate 260mg/kg

A lean food only works if you feed it as one. Switching bags does nothing on its own — the point of 348kcal per 100g is that you can weigh the food and know what your dog is getting, and that only helps if you actually weigh it rather than filling the bowl by eye. If your dog is already overweight rather than drifting that way, weight loss is a conversation with your vet, who can tell you a target and a rate; food alone is a slow tool for a problem that is already there.

Who it's for: neutered or spayed adult dogs, and any dog whose weight has been creeping up on a normal diet.